The result is fantastic and really showcases the impact that can be created with Barco projection.
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Explore another world at Le Space Inspire
South-Korea - 2024
When it comes to attractions, Le Space Inspire in Incheon, South Korea is as cutting-edge as they come. Spread across approximately 6,600 sq m, it is one of the largest immersive exhibitions in the country. But it isn’t just all about size. Discover how Hyundai Futurenet harnessed the capabilities of Barco projection to create an otherworldly, immersive attraction in the shape of Le Space Inspire.
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Context
When it comes to attractions, Le Space Inspire in Incheon, South Korea is as cutting-edge as they come. Spread across approximately 6,600 sq m, it is one of the largest immersive exhibitions in the country. But it isn’t just all about size.
The name, Le Space Inspire, comes from combining the terms Lumiere, Experience, and Space and points to the ambition to create an otherworldly experience using technology, light, sound, sensory stimulus, and content. Le Space Inspire must be experienced in person for full effect. The visitor’s journey is split across four zones, Cosmo Station, Portal 1: New Land, Portal 2: New Creature, and Space Exploration. These four zones comprise 18 exhibition halls which provide a themed and artistic exploration of not only our planet, but space, faraway alien lands, and much more.
Hyundai Futurenet was responsible for bringing the vision of Le Space Inspire to life. Taeyoon Oh, Exhibition Business Team Lead at Hyundai Futurenet, elaborates: “With Le Space Inspire, we were really trying to do something that has never been done before. By combining elements of theme parks, exhibitions, and attractions together to create an experience we are exploring new territory. And we wanted this experience to engage every sense of the visitor from sight, sound, smell, to touch and feel. To do this we knew that we would need to create the right content and then use the right technology to bring this experience to life.”
Solution
Display technology shoulders much of the responsibility for creating the experience for visitors at Le Space Inspire. Hyundai Futurenet demonstrates its technical proficiency by using every tool at its disposal, leveraging the capabilities of LED, lighting, and projection when appropriate in service of the vision and overall objectives.
While various display technologies have been utilised, one consistently stands out: projection. Oh says: “For us, the choice of display technology is dictated by the content and the application. When we need brightness and a higher level of the detail we may opt for LED. But when we need to create an immersive environment, where the visuals cover large space, nothing beats projection.”
All projectors are not created equal, and Hyundai Futurenet did its due diligence when making the selection for Le Space Inspire. Oh details: “When choosing the projector, we did a proper evaluation of all the options in the market, and we tested them out thoroughly. From our evaluation and testing, we found that Barco projectors were the right fit for Le Space Inspire. Their colour reproduction and technical capabilities were in line with the content we were creating and also in line with the outcomes we wanted to achieve.”
Approximately 150 Barco projectors, comprising the UDM-4K30, UDM-4K22 and UDM-4K15 models, the UDX- 4K40 model, the G62-W14, G62-W11, and G62-W9 models, and the G50-W6 model, have been deployed at Le Space Inspire. These projectors were instrumental in creating the experience at Le Space Inspire and allowed Hyundai Futurenet to execute its vision.
Results
Oh gives a concrete example of how Barco projectors were critical: “In the exhibition hall titled Exoplanet, we have an LED sphere that is the main attraction in the space. But the walls surrounding this LED sphere have content projection mapped onto them. We are using the Barco UDM-4K projectors with 30,000 ANSI lumens brightness and we must say that they are able to display amazing visuals even though the light from the LED sphere is present.”
Over in the Volcanic exhibition hall, Barco projection once again created a significant impact. Oh details: “The centrepiece of Volcanic is a rock model that sits in the middle of the space. We have carefully mapped and projected content onto this rock model to create the ambience of hot, volcanic, lava that has solidified. We had to scan the rock model and then spend many days testing and warping the content into the intricate nooks and crevices. But the result is fantastic and really showcases the impact that can be created with Barco projection.”
Barco projection also assists in creating the immersive experience Hyundai Futurenet wanted to deliver with Le Space Inspire. In the Humanoid exhibition hall, Barco projectors are used with the Pepper’s Ghost effect, projecting onto mesh screens, to create a holographic image. With additional projection onto the side and back walls, the holograms are made even more lifelike adding to the sense of immersion for the visitor.
To close the conversation, Oh gives his thoughts about the role Barco projection played at Le Space Inspire and the place of projection in modern attractions: “More and more, we are finding that attraction spaces must be immersive, and that as a result technology needs to be unobtrusive. Across Le Space Inspire, we’ve hidden away the speakers and the projectors as well. In the Parallel Universe exhibition hall, we had to hide more than 20 projectors, but the visuals still had to be perfect. I believe that as manufacturers make advances around throw distances and light sources, we will be able to address a lot of the challenges we face in deploying projectors and this will enable us to go to the next level of immersion for attractions.”
Jae Duk Kim, Sales Director, Immersive Experience, at Barco Korea, shares his thoughts: “It’s amazing to see what Hyundai Futurenet has been able to achieve with Barco projection at Le Space Inspire. For 90 years, innovation has been our legacy at Barco, installations and attractions like this push us to go further to improve and transform the way people work and create compelling experiences with our technology. We can’t wait to see what the future holds because it is going to be very exciting.”
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